Château de Pignan

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Le château en bref

West of Montpellier, the former Château de Pignan has housed the town hall of the commune since the late nineteenth century. Its construction began in 1673 at the initiative of Gabriel d'Hèbles, who died before seeing it completed; Henri I Bashy du Cayla, Marquis de Pignan, took over the site and entrusted it to the architect Augustin-Charles d'Aviler, who brought it to completion in 1698. The Bashy du Cayla family kept it until 1777, after which the Turenne family inherited it, before Napoléon Joseph de Turenne ceded it to the commune in 1888. The building, austere in appearance and remodelled several times, takes its masonry from the hôtels of Montpellier, retains mullioned windows and remains of an earlier medieval wall. A long vaulted gallery runs beneath the château and the neighbouring schools. Listed as a monument historique by order of 25 April 2012, it is surrounded by a park that has become a public garden.